Radio Australia Today Editorial
One big strike against forced marriage
3 June 2010
While we were on air today news came through that an arranged marriage involving a 17 year old Australian girl was recently thwarted.
The girl was due to fly out of Sydney to Lebanon last month, where she was expected to marry a man she didn’t know, but she wasn’t going to have a bar of it.
The bravest blogger of all
26 May 2010
Writing a blog is kinda like laying your entrails out on a slab for all to take a scalpel to. Once you press the publish button your heart and soul, your ideas, and your creativity are available for readers to approve, disapprove or insult.
So as a blogger it was surprising that one well-known blogger decided to go one step further and to travel the world to meet the envisceraters in person.
Robert Mugabe plays a bizarre game of Noah’s Ark
18 May 2010
There’s so much that is bizarre about Zimbabwe in 2010 that it’s hard to imagine anything that President Robert Mugabe could do that would be in the least surprising.
Somehow he’s managed it, and he has joined forces with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il to do it.
Child sex abuse victims. Why don’t we believe them?
5 May 2010
Today I interviewed a woman who was one of the lucky people to have survived being sexually abused as a child.
So severe was the abuse she endured from the age of 6 until 14 or so, that the entire decade of her childhood was blocked out of her adult memory. The whole thing just wasn’t there. She went on to become a respected doctor, a mother, a person who contributed to society, but for much of this time Cathy Kezelman had no memory of much of her childhood. There were snatches, sure, but she didn’t think back to Kindy or First Class or Year Five like many of the rest of us.
She couldn’t. It was wiped.
The Belgian burkha ban. An alliterative nightmare for Muslims
30 April 2010
Belgium has beaten France to the punch and passed a law banning women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public.
The reason for the bill was given as security, and the fact that the burqa made it impossible to see a woman’s face.
